It’s Wednesday again! So here’s the usual check-in. You can go to Taking On A World Of Words to chat with everyone else who has posted what they’re reading right now!
What are you currently reading?
Fiction: I’ve gone back to Susanna Kearsley’s The Firebird after a long time away. It’s not capturing me (or in this case recapturing me) as her other books usually do. I’d hoped it was just my mood, and coming back to it now would let me slip back into it… but apparently not. It might still be my mood, but it’s a bit disappointing.
Non-fiction: I’m back to The Story of Wales, by Jon Gower. I think that was a mood problem, because I’m digging into it more now… and getting angry about the historical treatment of the Welsh, of course. People forget, or never knew, that before English rule suppressed native languages on other contents, they started in Wales.
I’m also a good chunk of the way into How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics. So far it’s talked a lot about the promise of psychedelics for treating depression, anxiety, stress in people with terminal illnesses, etc… but it hasn’t gone into the science much. It’s been more of a history, so far, along with an exploration of the user’s personal feelings and experience,
What have you recently finished reading?
I finally finished my reread of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. It’s not one of my favourite Wimsey novels, though there are definitely fun bits, so I bogged down in it a while ago. Which means Strong Poison is next! Yay!
What will you be reading next?
I’m slowly working through my “shelf of abandoned books”, so the next up on that shelf look to Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, by Colin Renfrew, Feed by Mira Grant, and The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman. I’ll probably read a new-to-me book in tandem with trying to finish those; maybe Eugenia Cheng’s X+Y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender.
What are you reading? What’s got you enthusiastic at the moment? Let me know!
I’ve been meaning to try Feed for a while now… I hope you will enjoy your books this week and happy reading! Here’s my WWW.
It’s a reread for me! I really like it, though it’s pretty on the nose right now in many ways!
Thanks for dropping by. 🙂
Wow, you have such a wide variety of books! Happy reading! Here’s my WWW: https://shoshireads.weebly.com/home/www-wednesday6823938
Thanks for dropping by! Sorry I’m so late to reply, I’m visiting you back this week! 😀
How to Change Your Mind sounds like an interesting read! I was vaguely aware that psychedelics are being considered as a treatment method but I wasn’t sure how far that research has gone. Happy reading!
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It was actually what psychedelics were originally used for, before they became such a part of a subculture! So there were whole techniques and studies already, which are only just being revived now. It’s fascinating stuff!
Thanks for dropping by, and sorry I’m so late to reply/visit back!
I’m glad I am not the only one with shelves of abandoned books. Great list of books! I’m definitely adding The Story of Wales to my TBR. Have a great week!
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I’m trying to curb my habit, ahaha. 🙂 Thanks for dropping by!
I definitely need to add X+Y to my TBR. That sounds like an interesting perspective on things.
I’ve started on it in the last week, and it’s pretty fascinating!